Window-shade fixture.



D. N. ALLEY & A. E. MILLER.

WINDOW SHADE FIXTURE. APPLICATION FILED MAR. 8, 1917.

Patented Jan. 8, lJ.

ATTORNEY DANIEL N. ALLEY AND ALBERT E. ill/LILLER, OF PERU, INDIANA..

WNDOW-SHADE FIXTURE.

Application led March 8, 1917.

To all whom it may concern:

'Be it known that we, DANIEL N. ALLEY. and ALBERT E. MILLER, citizens of the United States, residing at lPeru, in the county of Miami and State of Indiana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in lVindow-Shade Fixtures, of which the following is a specification. l

This invention relates to improvements in window shade fixtures, and more particularly to shade brackets of the naillcss type.

The main object of the invention is to provide a simply constructed, cheap and eficient device of this character which may be quickly applied to or detached from a window frame without the use of anyextraneous fastening elements and without the use of any penetrating prongs thereby avoiding mutilation or marring of the frame on which it is mounted.

Another object is to construct a device of this character which may be quickly and easily adjusted to fit Window frames of varying widths and on which the shade brackets proper are adjustable to accommodate shade rollers of different lengths.

Still another object is t0 provide peculiar means for connecting the adjustable parts of this fixture, said means being so constructed that the cooperating elementsthereof will automatically snap into engagement and hold the parts against accidental separation, and yet permit them to move relatively to each other on the exertion of sufficient force.

With the foregoing and other objects in view, which will appear as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the combination and arrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafter described and claimed, it being understood that changes in the precise embodiment of the invention herein disclosed may be made within the scope of what is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the accompanying drawing:

Figure l represents a front elevation of the upper portion of a window frame with this'improved finture applied, parts being broken out yfor convenience in illustration,

Fig. 2 is an enlarged detail front view showing the bracket carrying strap and `,its connection with the xture,

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F ig. 3 is an enlarged end view 0f the iisture taken from the right of Fig. l,

Fig. 4 'is a top Vplan view of the righthand end of the fixture, and

F ig. 5 is a transverse vertical section taken on the line 5 5 of '.Fig. l.

ln the embodiment illustrated, a supporting structureis shown in the form of two clamps C and C designed to be secured in place on opposite sides of a window frame F, and made right and leftfor this purpose, but which otherwise are exactly alike and -hence one only will be described in detail.

Each of these clamps is constructed of any suitable sheet metal finished in any desired manner and each constitutes two members, one of which is in the form of a plate 2, which has its side edges bent and folded inwardly to form guides 8 parallel with the body of the vplate and in which the side edges ofthe othermember, which is also in the form of a plate 1 are designed to slide to adapt said plates to be adjusted longitudinally to fit window frames of different Widths.y

These plates l andQ' have outstruclr rounded 'hollow Vnipple-like protuberances 4; and 5 arranged in longitudinal alinement and spaced apart any desired distance. The protuberances on one plate register when the parts areassembled with those on the other and form sockets in which are designed to snap thelprotuberances of the inner member when brought into operative relation as is shown clearly inl? ig. 5 and thereby lock the plates in adjusted position, and yet owing to therounded Construction of said protuberances will permit the plates to slide relatively to eachother when forcibly moved toward or away fromeach other in longitudinal direction.

The plate Q'has its outer end bent laterally rearward at right angles as shown at 6 to form an arm for engagement with the outer side edge of the facing of the window frame F. This end is then bent inwardly at right angles as "shown at 7 to form an arm parallel with theplate body designed to `it in at the back of the Window frame facing for securely holding the `plate in position against lateral movement. The arm 7 has an inturnedflange 8 at its upper edge tapered toward its `outer end to form a wedge to be .of longitudinally extending transversely spaced slots 10, 11, 12 and 13. The slots of each pair are spaced transversely and ahned and the pairs 10 and 11 are transversely `spaced and alined with each other while those 12 and 13 are similarly spaced and alined. These pairs of slots are designed to form keepers 1a to receive attaching tongues or fingers 15 which project laterally from opposite edges at opposite ends of a bracket carrying-strap 16. These fingers are offset laterally inward as shown at 15 to space the strap 16 laterally from the plate 2 on which it is mounted a suflicient distance to provide for the free movement of the shade bracket proper 17 soon to be described. This strap 16 is disposed longitudinally on the plate 2 and the attaching fingers 15 thereof taper toward their free ends to adapt them to have a wedge-like engagement with their keepers 14, the inner edges of said fingers being shown incline'l and their outer edges straight, although they need not necessarily be so construc-ted.

Mounted to slide on each strap 16 is a shade supporting bracket 17 which is of conventional form, being provided with the usual pintle receiving aperture as 18. This bracket 17 has a laterally extending attaching plate 19 at its inner end, the side edges of which are inturned to form guides 20 for slidable engagement with two opposite side edges of the strap 16. Each of these brackets and straps at the opposite sides of the window frame are exactly alike except that the plate 19 of one turns outwardly in one direction and that of the other in the opposite direction as is usual in devices of this character. The plate 19 of each of the brackets 17 has an outstruck hollow protuberance 21, similar in construction to the protuberances e and 5 above described and which is designed to form a socket and snap over and yieldably engage similarly shaped protuberances 22 arranged in longitudinal alinement on the strap 16, said latter protuberances being spaced apart any desired distance to provide for the positioning of the bracket 17 at any desired point thereon to adapt it to accommodate shade rollers of different lengths. It will thus be seen that by simply sliding the bracket 17 in one direction or the other that it will move over the protuberances 22 with the exertion of a slight amount of force and that said protuberances will spring into and interlockingly engage the protuberance 21 carried by said bracket when relieved of said force, the clamping engagement between the protuberances of the two members being sufficient to hold the bracket against accidental displacement.

It is obvious that the offsetting of the fingers 15 will provide sufiicient space for the plate 19 of the bracket 17 to slide freely without frictional engagement with the protuberances 4 and 5 on the plate 2 which is shown disposed in close proximity to said strap 16, although it need not necessarily be so disposed.

In the use of this fixture, the plates 1 and 2 of each clamp having been .adjusted relative to each other to correspond to the width of the frame to which the device is torbe applied and the ends of the clamping members having been engaged with the opposite edges of the frame facing in the manner above described, the brackets 17 carried by said clamps may be adjusted toward each other by sliding them back and forth on the straps 16 to properly position them to re-V ceive and support a shade roller, not shown,

in connection with which they are designed to be used.

It is also obvious that the straps 16 may be detached when desired, such asfor the renewing of a bracket 17 should it become broken and be found necessary to substitute another therefor.

From the above description it will be clearly seen that this device while simple and efficient in construction may be quickly and easily applied or removed from the frame F, and without the use of any additional fastening elements.

From the foregoing description, taken in connection with the accompanying draw-Y ings, the advantages of the construction and of the method of operation will bereadily apparent to those skilled-in the art to which the invention appertains and while we'have described the principleof operation of' the invention together with the device which we now consider to be the best embodiment thereof, we desire to have it understood that the device shown is merely illustrative and that such changes may be made as are within the scope of the claimed invention.

lVe claim: Y

1. A window shade fixture comprising two membersadjustable longitudinally rela# Y tive to each other and each having pairs of `transversely alined spacedslots, and bracket carrying straps having fingers detachably engaged with said slots.

2. A window shade fixture comprising two members adjustable longitudinally relative to each other and each having pairs of transversely alined spaced slots, and bracket carrying straps having fingers dctachably engaged with said slots, said fingers tapering toward their free ends and having a wedge-like engagement with said slots.

3. A window shade fixture. comprising two plates slidable longitudinally one on the other, one plate having its side edges inturned to form guides to receive the edges of the other plate, the overlying plate having "foutstruck hollow rounded protuberances forming sockets on its inner face,` the underlying plate having rounded projections on its outer face positioned to enter and yieldably engage the sockets of the overlying plate whereby said plates are held in adjusted position, keepers carried by said plates, straps engaged with said keepers and having longitudinally alined projections on their outer faces, brackets mounted to slide on said straps and having laterally extending attaching plates, each provided with a socket on its inner face positioned to receive one ot' the projections on the strap on which it is mounted, and means for detachably connecting said plates to a window frame.

4. A window shade fixture comprising two plates slidable longitudinally one on the other, one plate having its side edges inturned to form guides to receive the edges of the other plate, the overlying plate having outstruck hollow rounded protuberances forming sockets on its inner face, the underlying plate having rounded projections on its outer face positioned to enter and yieldably engage the sockets of the overlying plates whereby said plates are held in adjusted position, brackets adjustable longitudinally on said plates, each plate having at its outer end a frame engaging cap in the form oi' an arni extended laterally at right angles from the plate end with another arm extending laterally outward from said rst mentioned arm and arranged parallel with the plate, and an inturned flange at the upper edge of said parallel arm.

In testimony whereof we affix our signatures in presence of two witnesses.

DANIEL N. ALLEY. ALBERT E. MLLER. Witnesses:

JOHN WILLEY Binnen, Gummi F. FLOYD.

Copies of this patent may be obtained for ve cents each, by addressing the Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, D. C. 

